GAR! 172: The Prince Chronology, Part 1

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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast presents a track-by-track album-by-album discussion of Prince’s career from his first album For You through to Controversy, including the self-titled Prince and Dirty Mind, as well as the debut album by The Time and the only album release from Vanity 6. We also talk about the early days of The Revolution, the tours, album art, Billboard charts, covers, radio airplay, record store memories, analog television, Andre Cymone, Ready for the World, Taylor Swift, hackers, and our new Twitter feed.

And since it’s about Prince, there’s a mature content warning on this episode, because yeah, we’re going to talk a lot about songs he wrote about vaginas. It is Prince after all.

Here’s the albums we reviewed. If you use our Amazon links, we get a small commission.

Prince, For You.

Prince, Prince.

Prince, Dirty Mind.

Prince, Controversy, pictured above.

The Time, The Time.

Vanity 6, Vanity 6. Sadly, not officially available, and ridiculously expensive, but still fun if you can find a copy.

And here’s the ad from the Courier-Post for Prince’s show at Emerald City in 1980. We mention this on the show.

The GAR! Podcast is the Glenn Walker and Ray Cornwall weekly podcast where they talk unrehearsed about whatever happens to come to mind. It’s an audio-zine for your mind, a nerd exploration of a nerd world, coming to you from the suburbs of New Jersey and the sunny lakes of Florida via Skype.

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Huge thanks to the team at PrinceVault for all the knowledge used on this week’s show.

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The GAR! Podcast 136: Remembering Prince

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We’re both huge Prince fans, and if you’re a regular listener, you know how often his name and work come up on this podcast. Needless to say, we’re gutted, and needed to talk about it when we heard of Prince’s passing. We hope you’ll enjoy listening to this special edition of The GAR! Podcast, and remembering with us. Rest in peace, Prince.

And this is Ray’s favorite version of It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night:

 

 

Links:

Glenn on Prince

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GAR Podcast Episode 19: A Quick One (While He’s Away)

This is Ray. Sorry for the late upload, folks. Crazy week. Also, special GAR! bonus points for the first person in the comments who gets the title reference!

This week’s podcast includes discussion of the following:

Ray and Pepsi in Atlanta / This Is Where I Leave You / Matt Fraction / the worst of the Fantastic Four / Lyja Laserfish and punctuation / Avengers themed sex toys / Breaking Bad action figures / Star Trek and Twitter / Scandal / Can I Stream.It? / Biff Bam Pop! / Glenn watches wrestling / CM Punk / WWE Divas and John Cena / Prince on Hardcore Pawn / Vanity vs. Appolonia / backwards masking / books / One Piece / Freddie meets The Fugees /

Links:

Jonathan Tropper’s This Is Where I Leave You
Lyja, who has no last name despite Glenn’s insistence
Google it yourself – “Avengers themed sex toys”
Breaking Bad Heisenberg Action Figure
Can I Stream.It?
Biff Bam Pop!
Mike Love interview part 1
Mike Love interview part 2
Dread Zeppelin
“Strap On Robbie Baby” by Vanity
If a Girl Answers (Don’t Hang Up)” by Vanity 6
Strange World
Tall Tales and Short Stories from South Jersey
Ray’s Twitter
Glenn’s Twitter
One Piece

Videos:

Honey Boo Boo goes wrestling

CM Punk Grammar Slam – Your vs. You’re (probably NSFW)

CM Punk Pipe Bomb John Cena

One Piece English Rap Opening

“Another One Bites the Dust” by The Fugees/Queen

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